Woodstock 50th Anniversary

Peace, love and hippies – plus lashings of public fornication, acid trips and skinny dipping – have helped Woodstock remain a music legacy 50 years after Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Janis Joplin played at the iconic three-day concert. Described as a "cultural and pharmaceutical event" by the late Sen. John McCain, an estimated 400,000 people showed up for the festival on a hay field in Bethel, about 70 miles south of the village of Woodstock, from Aug 15-17, 1969.